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The ocean at the end of the lane / Neil Gaiman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2013]Edition: First editionDescription: 181 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0062255657
  • 0062265083
  • 9780062255655
  • 9780062265081
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.
List(s) this item appears in: Fairy Tales for Grown Ups | FPL Staff's Favorite Books 2023 Fiction notes: Click to open in new window
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Science Fiction/Fantasy Gaiman Neil Available 33111007198993
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Science Fiction/Fantasy Gaiman Neil Available 33111007144823
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library Science Fiction/Fantasy Gaiman Neil Available 33111007270594
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.

This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real...

It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.

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